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What is your worst healthy eating " crime"?

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Daddima Sun 30-Jul-17 17:37:50

Now, I have no guilt about my " crimes", but mine could possibly be salt. Or Lurpak. Or sugar. Or fat on meat. Or.....

Oh dear, there's not much hope for me!

travelsafar Mon 31-Jul-17 06:35:38

Biscuits of any kind, I now only buy rich tea but even those disappear down my throat with a cuppa. Also love butter spread thickly on fresh bread with jam!!!!

kittylester Mon 31-Jul-17 07:06:34

I agree with penstemmon but I do like sugar in my tea and on my cereal and feel guilty about it - but not quite enough. And, if we buy sweets for the car when we are going on a 'journey', i can't leave them alone.

I'm not keen on fruit.

Imperfect27 Mon 31-Jul-17 07:33:41

Maybe the trouble for me is that I don't have a 'guilt' button. If I find myself putting on weight - a definite risk at Christmas, Easter and summer hols, then I just cut down again. It is a simple equation: eating too much = get fat. But I don't feel 'guilty' when indulge ... I just don't get that response. 'Responsible' or 'irresponsible' with my food choices, yes - why add in such a negative as guilt?. If you are going to 'sin' - sin boldly! grin
And I have ENJOYED 3 choccy digestives for breakfast today - knowing I am going to have a long walk later.

MawBroon Mon 31-Jul-17 07:50:37

Why oh why oh why the correlation of food (any food) which millions in the world are crying out for, with morality, goodness or guilt

"Naughty but nice"
"Ooh I don't mind if I do"
Even the wretched Slimming World "syns" - don't tell me nobody has spotted the similarity to "SINS"?

Can we all grow up please? smile

ninathenana Mon 31-Jul-17 07:52:07

I haven't bought biscuits, sweets or chocolate for months. I use sweetners in hot drinks, I use fruit to sweeten cereal. I cut every scrap of fat off the meat I eat. I only occasionally eat crisps.
WHY AM I FAT !!

NanKate Mon 31-Jul-17 08:27:06

Can't resist walnuts, a small handful here another there. 3 squares of DH's 85% dark chocolate. Topping up my wine glass. I could go on but I won't.

oldgoat Mon 31-Jul-17 08:33:51

Cheese on toast with a little knob of butter on top and a smear of Marmite. Ooh, it's making my mouth water just thinking about it.

Teetime Mon 31-Jul-17 08:55:36

Crusty granary /seeded breads!!! and chocolate of course.

Penstemmon Mon 31-Jul-17 08:56:03

I have, since my late 20s found my weight gain to be quick and weight loss slow. When diagnosed with a chronic illness 5 years ago I knew beoming fitter could prevent some added complications. I wanted to lose weight. I find any planned diet useless after the first week so I had hypnotherapy which did not make any food forbidden. The rule was to enjoy whatever you ate, eat slowly and mindfully. It worked!. I lost a stone and a half and have not regained the weight. No guilt just pleasure!

Christinefrance Mon 31-Jul-17 09:02:34

Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate smile

radicalnan Mon 31-Jul-17 09:55:31

That lot, read like my shopping list and menu planner............

janmarie Mon 31-Jul-17 09:59:16

Oooh, I'm going to try some of that! ?

Nanny27 Mon 31-Jul-17 10:27:48

Wine

adaunas Mon 31-Jul-17 10:37:00

Grapefruit juice and celery( with salt). Together they make me ill but I love the combination

grandMattie Mon 31-Jul-17 10:38:54

Butter? Moderation??? I like a little bread with my butter - which i why I only have some about 3x a year! grin

BluebellGran Mon 31-Jul-17 10:49:57

Occasional WHOLE large tub of Hagendas Pralines and Cream icecream. Trifle, cream cakes.....
But I'm not overweight!

W11girl Mon 31-Jul-17 11:13:10

Not guilty of any crimes. We need a bit of everything all posters have mentioned for a proper balanced diet, even fat on meat and strawberry jam. I eat them all in moderation and it works for me. Must rush... its time for my sugarless cup of tea and 1 choccy bic.

grandMattie Mon 31-Jul-17 11:16:45

W11 - aren't you virtuous grin - sure you don't do anything naughty?
We eat home-made food every day - often home grown vegetables. always at least 5 veges per meal... have pudding - but they are stewed fruit with yogurt. But surely just a little bit of what you fancy can't do you any harm! [BTW am a bit overweight, since menopause, so try to keep the weight down - no biscuits or cake unless it is a celebration sad]

inishowen Mon 31-Jul-17 11:21:15

Crusty bread with rich Irish butter. Add to that a chunk of cheddar cheese and I'm in heaven.

MawBroon Mon 31-Jul-17 11:25:24

And WHAT is wrong, shameful or "criminal " in any of that Inishowen??
Good food as nature intended.
The "health police" frankly make me sick.

JackyB Mon 31-Jul-17 11:41:08

I recently had a tummy bug and ate practically nothing for 4 weeks. I lost 5 kg, but my trousers were still tight. It's crept back on, so I'm done sinning now, as one of my DS is getting married in a couple of weeks.

No more sweets, crisps or alcohol for a start.....

starbird Mon 31-Jul-17 12:06:47

Where to start? Crusty bread, buttered (Anchor) of course and cheese, spread with mustard, plus tomatos, or chutney, or cucumber; toast and maramalade, crumpets with butter and/or cheese: toasted teacake with butter, melted cheese on toast or ryvita, with a poached egg on top - scrumptious; crisps. Morrisons frozen lemon tart occassionally as a dessert, or a dark chocolate mini magnum;
Chocolate - I go through phases of craving something and always have whatever it is in the house to have one a day, then go off it. Currently it is a dark choc mini magnum!

What I make no apologies for because they are healthy: nuts, fruit, salad, etc and a bowl of bran flake cereal with a banana or soft fruit, in the evening.

Of course not all of the above every day, just one or two.

I am a bit overweight - BMI 27, which gives me a bit of extra padding in case I fall over, but stay about the same, because if it goes up I drop all the extras for three days to get back to my normal weight. It does not work to drop them for longer to lose that extra half stone, as I cannot keep it up. We do need some pleasures in life!

Kim19 Mon 31-Jul-17 12:14:37

I'm with Penstemmon 100 per cent. I indulge in whatever I want to eat BUT the quantities of these indulgences is FAR less than it used to be. Fact is my three stones plus has stayed off for a couple of years now with no cravings or feelings of deprivation whatsoever. This is neither clever or boastful. I've just seen and felt the effects of overweight and am doing my best to live whatever lifespan I have left (hate 'life's too short') as comfortably and healthily as I can on a daily basis. So far so good and, apart from my husband dying, life has been/is being pretty good. Must add it is enhanced by enjoying much of the natter, wit and information gleaned right here on GN. Thanks to you all.

Smithy Mon 31-Jul-17 12:25:48

Well said Kim19 - couldn't have put it better

starlily106 Mon 31-Jul-17 13:00:40

I stick to my diet ridgidly, then i top it up with a chunk of cheese, or a lovely big toffee meringue cake front Sainsbury's, or maybe......... do you get my drift.
Am now looking for a self hypnosis tape. Had one years ago which really worked, can't find it , so am searching the internet for another one!